NEWS
June 8, 1996 | RONE TEMPEST, TIMES STAFF WRITER
In an effort to crush what it claims to be an outbreak of terrorism and separatism, the government has conducted a monthlong crackdown in China's predominantly Muslim far west, arresting several thousand people from the minority Uighur population and confiscating supplies of weapons and explosives.
NEWS
February 15, 1998 | From Times Wire Reports
An explosion on a bus killed at least 16 people and injured 30 others in central China, a Chinese news agency reported. But a Hong Kong-based dissident group put the death toll at 30 and said it believed, based on the damage, that the explosion was caused by a bomb. The China News Service, monitored in Hong Kong, said the explosion occurred when the bus was approaching a bridge in the city of Wuhan in Hubei province.
NEWS
June 28, 1989 | MARK FINEMAN, Times Staff Writer
The death toll in a dynamite explosion on a crowded passenger train rose to at least 24 Tuesday, and Chinese officials labeled the incident near Shanghai an apparent case of sabotage. The explosion occurred in a lavatory on a third-class car just before midnight Monday on the No. 364 passenger train from Hangzhou to Shanghai. Eleven people were seriously injured, according to news reports. Several observers in the capital suggested that the explosion could bring a further toughening of the government's nationwide crackdown on dissidents, in which authorities announced the arrest of 15 more people Tuesday.
NEWS
December 7, 2001 | From Associated Press
Agreeing to strengthen anti-terrorism cooperation, China has promised to consider letting the United States station an FBI agent in Beijing, an American envoy said Thursday. Francis X. Taylor, the top State Department counterterrorism official, praised China's help in tackling Osama bin Laden's Al Qaeda network. But Taylor's account of two days of talks with Chinese officials made clear that many issues still separate the two sides.
BUSINESS
October 22, 2009 | David Pierson
A Chinese company's gambit to drill for oil in U.S. territory demonstrates China's determination to lock up the raw materials it needs to sustain its rapid growth, wherever those resources lie. The state-owned China National Offshore Oil Corp., or CNOOC, reportedly is negotiating the purchase of leases owned by the Norwegian StatoilHydro in U.S. waters in the Gulf of Mexico, the source of about a quarter of U.S. crude oil production. China's push to enter U.S. turf comes four years after CNOOC's $18.5-billion bid to buy Unocal Corp.
SPORTS
May 9, 1998 | From Staff and Wire Reports
Point guard Andre Miller has said it several times, and so has his coach, Rick Majerus. Friday, the University of Utah said it too, issuing a statement that Miller, who played a key role in the Utes' advance to the NCAA championship basketball game, will remain in school for another season. The school put out the statement after Majerus had told a Seattle radio station Friday morning that Miller would be staying.